I think that, being Atlantis fans, we're going to automatically want to side with the SGA side, but I didn't want them to be obviously in the right.

Yes, and where you were so very, very clever about it was holding back naming any names. So the reader gets behind Rodney (which is an easy thing to do; we know Rodney, and this Rodney is sure he's on the right side), and then as we're hoping for him to succeed... *bam* You hit us with "Weir" and the reader's poor little head goes *spin*. It's awesome.